28 Days Later is writer/director Danny Boyle’s take on teh zombie horror genre, but gave it a very fresh and terrifying new look. Whereas zombies, before this film, were portrayed as slow and bumbling creatures, with decaying features, and missing or injured limbs. Whereas here they are portrayed as quick running, always aggressive creatures, that look pretty much human like besides the change of eye colour and blood splatter and stains. It is easy to see the changes made by Boyle, here, he took what was already a scary and feared horroe creature and injected it with more fear, aggression and terror, that would go on to be copied or have certain aspects used in future zombie creations, from films to videogames. The opening to this film is very fearful and suspencful, opening in an animal testing facility with monkeys locked away in cages, with various televisions dotted around portraying clips of violence and terror. The facility is then broken into by 3 animal rights members, who free one of the monkeys from its cage, despite a scientist warning them not too as the test subjects, have been injected with ‘rage’. The monkey then bites one of the rights members, cauing her to collapse to the floor clutching her bleeding throat but then stands back up again as a zombie and attacks the other people before fading to the title of the film.
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